PHIL SCROTTY was a private eye and Bogart-wannabe hired to track
down the missing owner of a cosmetics company in The Corridor People,
a quirky four-part miniseries that appeared on British television in the
1960's. In the course of his investigation, his path crosses that of KROCK,
a CID man, and his two assistants, Inspector Blood and Sergeant Hound (honest!
those are their names!), who are officially working on the case. It turns
out the big shot has been kidnapped by the "glamorous international
villianess" Syrie Von Epp, who's after the secret formula for a perfume
that deprives people of their senses for twenty-four hours (of course!).

Not your average private eye show, then. In The Boxtree Encyclopedia
of TV Detrectives, Geoff Tiballs says the show "leaned...towards the
surrealism of The Avengers." Visitor to this site Richard Whiting,
of the U.K., fondly remembers the show, although he admits his parents
thought it "utter rubbish."

TELEVISION

THE CORRIDOR PEOPLE
(1966, ITV)
4 60-minute episodes
Black and whiteCreated by Edward BoydDirected by David BoisseauProduced by Richard EverittStarring Gary Cockrell as PHIL SCROTTY
and John Sharp as KrockAlso starring Alan Curtis,William Maxwell,
Elizabeth Shepherd